Alissa Blair
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: University of Wisconsin–Madison (2014–2018); Wisconsin Center for Education Research (2016)
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Alissa Blair's research focuses on the intersection of language, literacy, and education, particularly for emergent bilingual and multilingual learners. Her work investigates how English-medium instructional settings can be reimagined to embrace multilingual and multimodal meaning-making processes. Blair has explored transformations in K–12 English language proficiency assessment and advocated for collaborative partnerships between parents and teachers of emergent bi/multilingual students. Her scholarship also examines the academic uses of language, redefining them through the experiences of emergent bilinguals in and outside of school settings. Furthermore, she has studied distributed leadership structures within multilingual school ecologies and explored expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners through language-based content instruction. Blair's work also includes exploring the possibilities of ethnodramatic writing for understanding the experiences of English learners in community college settings.
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- h-index: 5
- Publications: 27
- Citations: 210
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Assistant Professor 2020–presentUniversity of Arkansas Department of Curriculum and Instruction ORCID
Selected Publications
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‘Anything physical I’m big on now’: learning to support emergent bilingual students (2026)
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Linguistic resources and classroom conditions for translanguaging in a newly expanding language ecology (2026)
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Integrating a Functional Approach to Language Development in University Teacher Education Coursework (2025)
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The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states (2025)
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Advancing principles of systemic functional linguistics in responsive graduate teacher education through design-based research (2025)
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Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction (2024)
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Distributed liderazgo : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology (2024)
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Distributed Liderazgo: The Making of Spaces and Leadership Structures for a Multilingual School Ecology (2023)
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Using Family-Centered Practices to Increase Language Access for Multilingual Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children (2021)
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Toward collaborative partnerships: Lessons from parents and teachers of emergent bi/multilingual students (2020)
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- Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction
- Advancing principles of systemic functional linguistics in responsive graduate teacher education through design-based research
- Integrating a Functional Approach to Language Development in University Teacher Education Coursework
- Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction
- Integrating a Functional Approach to Language Development in University Teacher Education Coursework
- Linguistic resources and classroom conditions for translanguaging in a newly expanding language ecology
- ‘Anything physical I’m big on now’: learning to support emergent bilingual students
- Toward collaborative partnerships: Lessons from parents and teachers of emergent bi/multilingual students
- Using Family-Centered Practices to Increase Language Access for Multilingual Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children
- Using Family-Centered Practices to Increase Language Access for Multilingual Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children
- The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states
- The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states
- The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states
- The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states
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